Lillian Private Academy for Women ([personal profile] garden_of_maidens) wrote in [community profile] lillian_academy2014-09-08 10:25 pm

Welcome to the New Year

"Gokigenyou."

"Gokigenyou."

The clear morning greeting travels through the serene, blue sky.

Today, once again, the maidens that gather in the Virgin Mary's garden smile purely to one another as they pass under the tall gateway.
Wrapping their innocent bodies and souls is a deep-coloured school uniform.

Walking slowly as to not disturb the plaits in their skirts, so as to not toss their white sailor scarves into disarray... such is the standard of modesty here. Running because one is in danger of missing class, for instance, is too undignified a sight for students to wish upon themselves here.

Lillian Private Academy for Women.

Founded in Meiji 34, this academy was originally intended for the young women of nobility, and is now a Catholic academy of prestigious tradition. Placed in downtown Tokyo, where you can still see traces of Musashi Field's greenery, it is protected by God, a garden where maidens can receive tutelage from pre-school to university.

Time passes, and even now, in Heisei, three era-names past Meiji, it is a valuable academy, where nurtured ladies raised in greenhouses are shipped out in carefully packaged boxes after 18 years of schooling - an arrangement that continues to survive.
As the last note of Maria-sama's Soul rings through the chapel, echoing into the high rafters, the Yamayurikai stands tall at the front of the procession, ready to give out the gifts of rosaries to their newest arrivals.

The respective classes of each first-year are called, and each one receives their gift from the Yamayurikai members. The second and third year students are sitting by, simply watching, perhaps commenting quietly to each other whenever a particularly interesting first-year passes by, but they are quick to silence when the stern gazes of the nuns passes over them.

A new year has come to Lillian Academy, and the students are ready to start their adventures in life, love, and everything else.

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[Open post for the welcoming ceremony and the beginning of the year! Feel free to use this for the actual ceremony, shortly thereafter, or the general first day of school. Welcome!]

resurrection_butterfly: (Covered fan)

[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-10-22 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She rouses from her slumber, a little groggy and not quite sure what was going on.]

Oh? Did I miss tea? I'm sure the Door Mouse won't mind.

[Had she been dreaming about Alice in Wonderland?]
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[personal profile] besieger 2016-10-23 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Door mouse? ... Oi.

[ she has no idea what that's meant to mean. this place was extraordinary in its own comparative right, but she's fairly certain door mouse are non-existennt.

she chuckles.
]

He probably won't mind much. [ her smile turns wry; she straightens and tucks her hands into her pockets, deliberating another nudge— with the toe of her foot, this time. ] If we're quick about it, anyway.
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[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-11-04 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[They were the most adorable tiny rodents.]

Oh then I suppose I should try and hurry then. I don't want to cause any sort of upset.

[And with the nudging she gets to her feet, brushing out her skirt to get it back into shape. Though she said she would hurry, she wasn't particularly hurrying. But, perhaps getting up at all right now was in a way a type of hurry.]
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[personal profile] besieger 2016-11-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ haruki, keeping one eye shut, observes this languid pace. watches the girl slowly rise to her feet, slowly brush out her skirt... "slowly" seems to be an all-encompassing adjective, here. ]

... Sure.

[ haruki's torn between the potential for food and this perfectly alluring pace. —cue a sigh of resignation, as she presumes to take a (slow) lead. ]

You got a name?
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[personal profile] resurrection_butterfly 2016-11-13 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Saigyouji Yuyuko.

[She said softly with a small bow.]

I must apologize for not having said anything sooner. And your name?
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[personal profile] besieger 2016-11-16 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
... Sounds fancy. Nice to meet'cha, Yuyuko.

[ a jump to informality— she's still getting used to these sorts of things. for example, she didn't think to bow, but at yuyuko's action, she imitates it. it's clumsy. ]

Sagae Haruki, but you can just call me Haruki. I'm a third year.